Tamen de Gushi - Ch. 190

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Using a shirt to dry clean hands might not be a bad option.

The laundering of cloth towels brings its own environmental load. I don't know that that load may be, but some studies have indicated that the environmental load of cloth diapers is greater than that of disposable diapers, so I wouldn't be shocked to learn that the environmental load of cloth towels were greater than that of paper towels.

(Hands could be air-dried, but would then tend to chap.)
 
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@Oeconomist The impact of generating one non-organic diaper may be greater once, but it can be reused with multiple babies thus offsetting that initial cost (and hemp, bamboo, or reused cloth diapers are lower-impact and work just as well). In the end, they are still much better than disposable diapers just by reducing landfill waste exponentially. Those studies tend to be misinterpreted because they just focus on the manufacture but leave out the long-term result and waste.
 
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No, the principal problem with the case for reusable diapers is, as indicated in my original comment, a failure to account for the environmental load of laundering.

People tend just to look at just one source of environmental load when comparing technologies. But the production load, maintenance load, and disposal loads all need to be considered.
 

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